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TEXAS HISTORY MINUTE: Barefoot Sanders, his role in Dallas desegregation


TEXAS HISTORY MINUTE: Barefoot Sanders, his role in Dallas desegregation
By Ken Bridges
Special to the Herald Democrat
Barefoot Sanders was familiar figure in the Dallas legal community for years.  As a judge, he became a powerful voice for justice.  And not only did he make history, he was a witness to many important events in the twentieth century.
            Harold Barefoot Sanders Jr., was born in Dallas in 1925.  Barefoot was his grandmother’s maiden name, Dennie Barefoot.  Though he disliked the name as a youngster, he embraced it as an adult.  He attended local schools, graduating from North Dallas High School in 1942.  He enlisted in the Navy the next year, serving on a battleship in the Pacific for the remainder of World War II. ....

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Clint Peoples' Final Interview (Last of the Secret Files Oral History)


Clint Peoples’ Final Interview (Last of the Secret Files Oral History)
On August 15, 1989, four and one-half years after his original 1984 interviews with Gerald Saxton for the Dallas Public Library, Peoples sat down with Saxon again, as well as Cindy Smolovik, to review and update his earlier statements. These pages were appended to his earlier oral history such that the eleven pages below were numbered according to the previous sequence and are the final pages that were withheld from the public until 2012.
Clint Peoples began his law enforcement career as a deputy sheriff in Conroe, Texas in 1930. In 1941 he joined the Texas Department of Public Safety as a highway patrolman, moved to the Texas Rangers in 1946 and finally became a U.S. Marshal in 1974. After 59 years in law enforcement, he retired in 1989, and a lengthy article commemorating that occasion appeared in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram on June 11th of that year (a copy of which has been reproduced on page 2). ....

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